I really doubt that Sally Yates will be teaching Tiffany Trump.... First year courses tend to be taught by tenured professors, not lecturers. Lecturers come in and teach one course -- usually very specific to their area of expertise. These are upper level courses. Law students choose their upper level courses, and they know who teaches those courses when they make their selections.

So if Tiffany Trump were to end up in Yates's course as an upper level, it would be because she wanted to be in it. Also, skipping over the whole blind grading thing, Yates is a professional, she's not going to treat a student differently because of who her father is.

Being taught the proper way to preform an action, via extreme ownage and embarrasment. This requires the schooler, who is always of such a high level of skill that the schoolee has no chance of saving his reputation, to utterly dominate and show no remorse. If remorse is shown, it is done in a cool and laid-back way, as in to say "Your not even worth the effort of my pinkie finger", which ironically is just as brutal as an all-out ownage.

"Yates is a professional, she's not going to treat a student differently because of who her father is."

Ridiculous statement in Althouse blog post: We already know that Yates thinks nothing of disregarding her professional responsibilities, and academics everywhere are eager to punish students for political reasons. Ask a Duke lacrosse player, including the ones who were not specifically falsely accused, how some of their professors treated them.

"The president is attempting to dismantle the rule of law, destroy the time-honored independence of the Justice Department, and undermine the career men and women who are devoted to seeking justice day in and day out, regardless of which political party is in power," (cough, cough)

WaPo describes Yates as "[Trump's] nemesis"; has he spent even a nanosecond thinking about her since showing her the door? And as noted by many commentators at the time, Yates' refusal to defend his "controversial" travel ban amounted to insubordination and demanded her resignation.

Sally Yates is a political hack, evidently she didn't think she was a good enough lawyer to defend President Trumps emigration band executive order. Instead of counseling the President in private like any honorable lawyer would, she took the opportunity embarrass herself, DOJ, show her disregard for the Constitution or warped view of it and commit insubordination on television. President Trump fired her incompetent political corrupt ass. The President moved on finding competent lawyers to defend and win. So I guess Sally was and is full of shit.

The Supreme Court will give the final decision on the constitutionality of the travel ban. Like Obamacare, parts will be upheld and other parts will be ruled unconstitutional. Yates personal views never mattered. That's why Trump shitcanned her. The DOJ isn't a separate branch of governance. And in actuality, the DOJ has never been independent.

But we all have to be careful lest a lecturer eventually become a senior lecturer, even a distinguished senior lecturer, who turns out later to have actually been a full faculty member entitled to call him- or herself "Professor of Law" even though he or she wasn't ever actually a professor, chaired or full or associate or assistant or otherwise.